Just crossed 1000 forum replies on moon landing threads

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Oh wow, congrats on hitting 1000! That's a ton of posts. I was just reading about some new orbital mechanics research that actually backs up the Apollo trajectory calculations. The math they used back then holds up perfectly with modern simulations. People forget how much manual number crunching those engineers did with slide rules and paper. It's fascinating stuff, honestly changes how I look at the whole achievement.

hannah_west395d ago

Remember watching a documentary where an old NASA engineer showed his actual slide rule from Apollo 8, still had coffee stains on it.

cameron_hernandez695d ago

@wendy_lee48, have you looked into the actual math behind the Apollo guidance computer? I always wondered how they got such precise burns with basically a calculator. The core rope memory thing blows my mind, they literally wove the software into wire. Those engineers back then had to be absolute wizards with their slide rules.